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Published in 2000, Witch Child by Celia Rees is an epistolary children’s novel set in seventeenth-century England and New England, following fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury, a young witch-girl who escapes to the New World after her grandmother is executed for witchcraft. Upon reaching Salem, Massachusetts, Mary meticulously documents her perilous journey and efforts to conceal her identity amidst rampant religious persecution and witch hunts, all while forging relationships and facing daily threats in a new Puritan society. The book involves themes of torture, execution, and religious persecution.